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"dark age" is just something I came up with. By "dark age" I meant that there are no thermonuclear processes left providing light for us. After trillions of yea
by edem 8y ago
"dark age" is just something I came up with. By "dark age" I meant that there are no thermonuclear processes left providing light for us. After trillions of years the last Red Dwarf will run out of fuel and there will be no light-emitting stars left.
We don't know the scale, that's why we usually say "observable universe", but we do know the rules which apply everywhere.
"light age" or whatever you call it in this context means that there are still stars left which emit light.
After the "dark age" there will be the heat death of the universe.
- mercer 8y agoYour comment prompted me to re-read The Last Question by Asimov (https://www.multivax.com/last_question.html https://www.multivax.com/last_question.html).
- darepublic 8y agoYour comment prompted me to re-acknowledge my fear of mortality
- edem 8y agoWow, I've never read that but I will do so now!
- mercer 8y agoThere's also "The Last Answer" by Asimov, and if you're into these types of stories I can also recommend The Egg (by the writer of The Martian).